About Me

Welcome to my crafting blog. After retirement, my husband and I moved to a beautiful location in the Okanagan area of British Columbia. I love all paper crafts including mixed media, journaling and cards. I also dabble in papermaking, photography, fibre art, and altered books. I am an active member of several card and mixed media groups and on the design team of several challenge blog. I love the world of blogging, it has opened many doors for me.
My favourite quote is by Maya Angelou. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” I hope you join me in my search for my creative side. Thanks for stopping by!

I love the Christmas deer, he is so cute. I coloured him with Copics. Then added a circle ribbon, ribbon and glitter to complete the tag. The paper background was some recycled Christmas wrap that I added some glitter to. .

Remember to pop over to our challenge blog to see the beautiful creations from our inspiring design team. Thank you for stopping by.

Time for another challenge at Crafty Card Makers. The theme of this challenge is Shabby Chic/Vintage.

I made my card using an image from Dover Publications and coloured the image with my Copics, Posca Pens and A Wink of Stella. The sentiment is by Stampin Up. I distressed the sides of my images, layered several doilies that I added Distressed ink to age them. To complete my card I added some pastel flowers, pearls, gems, sequins, and a butterfly.

I hope you will stop by our challenge blog to see the beautiful designs of the Design Team members. My favourite quote is by Maya Angelou. “You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.” Create something today and join us in one of this challenge. Thank you for stopping by.

I used a lot of different products for my altered clock. I used a promotional clock that I found at Value Village for my project but unfortunately I forgot to take a before picture. Some of these products are:

Gesso

Acrylic paint

Copics

Washi tape

Pearl

Wooden flower

Light and heavy gell medium

Scrapbook paper

Posca Pens

Here is a side view

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative day. Remember to pop by the SLS Lines challenge blog to see the other inspiring creation from the design team.

Monday, June 13, 2016

I coloured my image with Copics and Wink of Stella. I layered my image on to two designer Christmas papers, add snow make out of Styrofoam I graded with a cheese grader for the fallen snow and used Chunky White Deep Impression embossing enamel for the falling snow. I added some silver glitter to some plastic snowflakes from my stash to the tag along with a sentiment and ribbon.

I hope you will join us this week at Holly Jolly Christmas Challenges. Remember to pop over to our challenge blog to see the inspiring cards of that the design team has create for you. Thank you for stopping by and have a creative day.

I coloured the image with Copics and added the star fish and sequences, thought they fit the theme of my card quite nicely. My background paper was embossed with a We are Memory Keepers embossing folder and the starfish paper is a digital image.

Friday, June 10, 2016

Time for new releases at SLS Lines and I decided to choose one of the clowns that are in the new release and make a wooden birthday card. The image I used is called Happy Clown with Balloons.

I used a wooden frame I found at the dollar store that I painted a combination of bright colours, I added some doodle, flowers and a Happy Birthday stamp. The image was coloured with Copics, glitter pens, white gell pen and diamond glaze. The doodle were done with a Posca pen.

Here are a couple more views of the card.

Front

To view the other new releases for June check out our challenge blog . The new collection has some very interesting images. The design team has been hard at work creating projects to inspire you.

Remember that we have an ongoing challenge also on your blog and you still have time to enter the challenge.

Sunday, June 5, 2016

I made this art journal page as my June's inspirational project for SLS Lines. I had fun with this great image called Tired Mom Needs Coffee. The image can be found here. I just love the expression on her face. This was a fun project.

The background was created with a gell plate, several colours of acrylic paint and some textured wallpaper. The pattern turned out very bold and I toned it down with a thin coat of gesso. I added the circles using a lid for a bottle and acrylic paint. My image was coloured with Copics and a black charcoal pencil. The sentiment was created on my computer.

Pop over to the SLS Challenge Blog to see the inspiring creations of the design team. There is still time to join in the current challenge, Monochrome Challenge, just create your card or project using the current theme and enter it here.

Saturday, June 4, 2016

Time for a wedding card challenge this week at Come and Get It Challenges. I made this card using a stamp from Sami stamps for my card called Floral bride. I think the image is so simple and beautiful.

I coloured my image with Copics and a Wink of Stella. I layered my image on some pastel paper, added bling, flowers and a sentiment to complete the card.

Friday, June 3, 2016

I decided to make an altered bottle for this month's Creative Artiste's challenge using a maple syrup bottle I found in my recycling bucket.

This month our sponsor is Foil Paper.

It was fun making the altered bottle. I painted my bottle first with Gesso and then with acrylic paint. I then added some diamond stencils with modeling paste. Once the paint had dried I added a fabric applique, cheese cloth and some flowers . I then added some Gesso to the flowers to give them some texture. The butterfly is a digital from Morgan Fitzsimons that I printed out on paper and coloured then printed it on mylar and layered them on my bottle.

To complete the project I made a topper for the bottle and added some pearls.

Thank you for stopping by and have a creative day. Pop over to the Creative Artiste Challenge blog to see the projects the design team have created to inspire you. Hope you will join us this month.

Wednesday, June 1, 2016

This is this month's project for Altered Eclectics I have tried my hand at a mixed media canvas which I titled "0ld Warehouse"front. I was recently in Montreal and I was very interested in the old buildings especially in their warehouse district. I fell in love with the colours, age and textures of these buildings.

I created the canvas was created using many different art products and findings including:

June is wedding season and we have a wedding card challenge at Eclectic Ellapu this month. I have used a digital stamp from Kenny K Downloads for my card. I love the happy faces of the bride and groom dancing.

I coloured my card with my Copics and glitter pen, die cut my wedding flowers, added pearls and layered them on several different papers I also added some ribbon, a ring charm and a butterfly to complete the card.

Eclectic Ellapu also has a second challenge this month and the theme is midsummer. Please check out our challenge blog for more details on the challenge and to view the other cards that the design team member have created inspire you.